Netcat for webservice status
 

Hi, I read somewhere that netcat is like a "swiss army knife". Therefore, I want to check the status of a web service (I have the url), how can I do that using netcat? I know how it can be done through curl though, but I would really prefer to use netcat for the task.

Thanks in advance :)

check item 6 here http://www.howtoforge.com/useful-uses-of-netcat

Thanks, but how do i use it with a url like http://192.168.0.1:8080/someService?wsdl with a status message(s) being returned and not an interactive prompt?

interactive what now? An HTTP request is an HTTP request no matter what the server app is. There's no different. It's just a POST or a GET

You should probably quote the URI "http://192.168.0.1:8080/someService?wsdl" to keep the question mark from being interpreted by the shell if that's what you mean?
*BTW since this seems to be about WSDL why not use something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsdlpull/ instead? Then you can also check the actual content for errors and not just it being alive or not.

@unPawn, I have tried various combinations using qoutes as suggested, but the OS keeps displaying the nc syntax indicating that the syntax is not correct. Also, I am not allowed to install or copy other files like the wsdlpull you suggested. Further help is still needed and will be appreciated.

Please write my handle correctly, TIA.


'man nc' says it's 'nc address [space] port' plus you'll prolly have to do something like 'echo -en 'GET HTTP/1.1 /someService?wsdl\n\n|nc address port'.